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| "Handicapped have power driven. tricycles

WINNIPEG * (CP). —
Thanks ‘to self-proclaimed
gadgetesr Woody Gauthier,
several handicapped people

in’ caianipeg are getting

around: a move these “For Eldon Bach, one of

days, . _ “is9101:n@authier's enthusiastic .

: utter has Covelopad- customers, -the irievele has
and produced six battery- meant.a great deal,

awsted, adult-size tricycles Bach is. unable to walk

—

: “Sometimes he Jeaves: in | speed, ‘electronically con: "models can be rigged s0 they ~
the morning and doesn’t’ tolled, - -gearapd-sprocket-: .can he pedalled
come back unti} dark,” . model which can travel ‘at ""* The Wedrive is designed
Gauthier, operations about 13 kilometres an hour, especially for people with
manager of a Winnipeg Of the five » his iathe limited pedalling power and
dealership, has: inyened five most advanced. Others in- can't be pedalled without
types of drives to ‘power the elyda single-and two-speed engaging the motor," says
tricycles. - belt-drive models, and front-- Gauthier.
.. wheel drive models, They're “perfect for
His own tripyele isa 10- All. but the _Deltedrive someone with a handicap or
_ heart. condition to get out in

for the handicapped.
“Anyone can aperate the
tricycles providing they
have the use of their arms
‘for steering," Gauthier says.

without crutches, amd his
tricycle is equipped with a
belt-drive and iwo batteries
for distances of up to 250
kilometres. He averages 90
to 00 kilometres a day.

“T don’t usually put on that"
heavy a battery,” says Gau-
thier, “but he Hkes to, .
travel.”

The tricycles cost between’
$600 and $700 with motor, and
$375 without.

Gauthier says he has sold
power units to customers as
far away as Inuvik in the
Northwest Territories
although so far the tricycles §
themselyes have been sold —
only in Winnipeg.

Adult - tricycles - sold in

Canada are too light to carry

‘the hedvy batteries, he says.

The U.S. model he uses bas

designed for payloads of up
oF pRyloa

to 500. pounds, and a wide
saddle ke comfort,

;

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- Inflation likely to rise |

» By ANN BUNCAN,
‘PARIS (CP)'-= Fueled by
higher food and energy
prices, ' inflationary
in Canada

forecast * released Wed-
Desday, also said the
‘Cana ian . unemployment
rate, despite Its recent de-
cline, could start rising soon
te 85 per cent.

The repart, sent to the

Ushers before, teen
‘ in Genéva' ‘by the
‘Oraptheation’ of ‘Petroleum
Ex ‘Countries-to in-
crease crude--oll prices,
predicted Hitle change in
‘Canada's. balance-of-pay-
ments bituation io. the next

year,

But ata DEW. conference,
OECD officials said the
latest -OPEC , price. increases
could add about $500 millica
to ‘Canada's predicted
balance-of-payments deficlt
of $4.5 billion in 1980.

As a result of the OPEC
decisions, inflation in the 24

OECD ’ countries “will be
higher, growth slower and
current accounts in smaller
surplus or larger deficit than
forecast in the present:
economic outlook,"’. -the

- OECD said in a news re-

lease. The OECD groups ail
major non-Communiat in-
duatrialized countries,

Economic predictions for
the United States, Canada’s
Jargest trading pariner,
were especially grim.

Calling an economic slow-
down in the U.S. “im-
minent,"” the OECD. said:
particularly given the latest

cularly given the
aT price, rises, that it (the
slowdown) will be somewhat
. has seemed
like

on peatedly the OECD

mphasized the economic
effects of the fragile energy
situation.

“For the first time’ since
the days of immediate: poat-.
war recovery, there is now a
very real pisk that the short-

and mediumtérm growth of °

living “standards and em-
ployment will be constralned
by avallability of a iy ine

“poem dy nee te

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Prices were mixed in heavy

TORONTO (CP) — The
Toronto stock market was

ae

dustrial input — energy.”

- Because of energy con-
atraints, reporters were-told,
it is impossible’ for OECD
economies to grow at an
annual rate of 4.5 per. cent
unless policies ta uze energy
more efficiently and cut
dependency on imported oil

_ are particularly successful,

The economic outlook as-
Bumes. there will be no
general oi] price increase in
1920.

If there Is, the OECD coun-
tries will slide further into
recession and inflation will
be further aggravated. of-

ficials of the Paris- paged
organization said. -

Concerning Canada, the
report said “conaldarable

uncertainty surrounds the’
likely development of prices

and wages,”

But food prices are likely
ta rise in the ‘coming year by
at least the 15-ta 1¢- ent
rise, in 1978, it aid mre

The planned mid-year in-
creage in the price of
domestic crude oi] will alsa
push up Canadian consumer
prices, the report said.

It said the growth of Cana-

dian wage rates are ‘OX

ted wo accelerate, ‘pa.

ses in “real disposable

incomes may not, in: the -

absence of fyrther {fiscal
concessions, match the 1978
ixicrease,"

Growth. in the Gross
Nationa] Product, an -
dication ‘of. the country 6
ceonomicn well-being, is
predicted ta slow down dur-
ing the last half of 1979 “and
to remain below its longer-

, for industrial

the air for a little excercise,"

Gauthler has won awards
and safety
devices he developed for the
air force during the Second
World War and later for

‘Canadian -Naitional

Rallways,

He “began experimentlng .

with gas motorg on bicycles
three years ago with the

intention of making powered:

hicyeles for older people.’
But they were “noisy and
dirty and shook a -lot.’
He switched to tricycles

because they are sturdier —
and to electric motors’
becausé they're “noiseless,

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_ clean and cost onetenth of a

penny per mile to run,"
‘Gauthier purchases

tricycle frames and same of

term average (1 ‘rate,’ ** the

starts were also
to continue. falling.

Houal

, the parts for the drives from

practice of law.

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